Kinship across the Black Atlantic : writing diasporic relations / Gigi Adair.
"This book considers the meaning of kinship across black Atlantic diasporas in the Caribbean, Western Europe and North America via readings of six contemporary novels. It draws upon and combines insights from postcolonial studies, queer theory and black Atlantic diaspora studies in novel ways t...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Postcolonialism across the disciplines ;
23. |
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| Summary: | "This book considers the meaning of kinship across black Atlantic diasporas in the Caribbean, Western Europe and North America via readings of six contemporary novels. It draws upon and combines insights from postcolonial studies, queer theory and black Atlantic diaspora studies in novel ways to examine the ways in which contemporary writers engage with the legacy of anthropological discourses of kinship, interrogate the connections between kinship and historiography, and imagine new forms of diasporic relationality and subjectivity. The novels considered here offer sustained meditations on the meaning of kinship and its role in diasporic cultures and communities; they represent diasporic kinship in the context and crosscurrents of both historical and contemporary forces, such as slavery, colonialism, migration, political struggles and artistic creation. They show how displacement and migration require and generate new forms and understandings of kinship, and how kinship may be used as an instrument of both political oppression and resistance. Finally, they demonstrate the importance of literature in imagining possibilities for alternative forms of relationality and in finding a language to express the meaning of those relations. This book thus suggests that an analysis of discourses and practices of kinship is essential to understanding diasporic modernity at the turn of the twenty-first century."--Back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 200 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1789620376 9781789620375 1802077359 9781802077353 1789624541 9781789624540 1789629802 9781789629804 |